Hemigrammus hyanuary

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CHARACIFORMES	CHARACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Hemigrammus hyanuary

Species Authority:

Durbin, 1918

Common Name/s:

English	–	Costello tetra, January tetra, January tetra (FB)
Spanish	–	Enero tetra, Mojarita

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2009
Assessor/s:	Reis, R & Lima, F.
Reviewer/s:	Collen, B., Darwall, W., Ram, M. & Smith, K. (SRLI Freshwater Fish Evaluation Workshop)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Assessed as Least Concern due to its sizeable distribution, which is probably wider than known, and the lack of any known major widespread threats.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Known from floodplains lakes in the Solimões River (local name of the Amazon River above its confluence with the Negro in Brazil). There are no reliable records in Peru but the species probably more than likely occurs there (Lima pers. comm. 2007).
Countries:	Native: Brazil; Peru
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Population [top]

Population:	This species has a stable population trend at present.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	H. hyanuary is a benthopelagic (ecological region at the lowest level of water body) species. Occurs in flood plain lakes.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Even if ornamental and as such exploited for the aquarium hobby, the harvest of the species is probably negligible for the species as a whole, considering that the species is probably not harvested in most of its range. It is however a species poorly known in nature.

Major Threat(s):

Even if ornamental and as such exploited for the aquarium hobby, the harvest of the species is probably negligible for the species as a whole, considering that the species is probably not harvested in most of its range. It is however a species poorly known in nature.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no conservation measures in place although they are needed.

Conservation Actions:

There are no conservation measures in place although they are needed.

Citation:	Reis, R & Lima, F. 2009. Hemigrammus hyanuary. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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